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It also eliminates both the individual and employer mandate penalties that forced millions of Americans into health care plans that they do not want and can not afford, among many other provisions. A ...

Rosenstein was originally invited by the two Senate leaders, Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Democrat Chuck Schumer of NY, to explain Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey. Mr Comey is...

Of those 64 guns, there were 21 shotguns, 20 rifles, 18 handguns, three airguns and the rest were not specified. Hartless was not allowed to own a firearm in wake of a 2010 felony conviction for abd...

UPA senior vice-president of public policy Robert Guenther said: "The fruit and vegetable industry is highly dependent on worldwide trade, both exports from the U.S. talk with Canadian Foreign Affairs...

A Fox News correspondent had claimed the opposite: that the Israeli leader asked the U.S. president not to move the embassy. Israel captured east Jerusalem  claimed by Palestinians for the capital ...

By several senators' accounts, he contradicted Trump's statements that Rosenstein's written criticism of FBI Director James Comey had been a factor in Comey's recent firing by the president. But this ...

Later Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., excoriated the Trump administration for the mixed messaging surrounding Comey's firing and Rosenstein's role in it, noting on the Senate...

Bipartisan lawmakers had criticized Comey for his handling of investigations related to Trump and his electoral opponent Hillary Clinton. Rosenstein was returning to the Capitol on Friday for anothe...

On Wednesday, the Justice Department appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to preside over the investigation, which will certainly include Flynn. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Dem...

The committee is one of several on Capitol Hill investigating possible collusion between Russian Federation and President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. The op-ed prompted scrutiny by the Justice Depar...

Times Square , typically one of the busiest areas of New York City, was completely blocked off to the public on Thursday afternoon following the crash. Navy records show that in 2013 he spent two mo...

Former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner will appear in Federal Court to face criminal charges in an investigation of his online communications with a teenage girl in North Carolina. That inquiry was...

The Anadolu Agency, a state-owned Turkish news service, reported that members of the president's security team were involved in the attack. Washington and Ankara are bitterly at odds over USA suppor...

The U.S. response included summoning the Turkish ambassador to the State Department Wednesday, where he met with Under Secretary of State Tom Shannon, the acting Deputy Secretary. A video posted onl...

For the third year in a row, Liam and Emma take the top spots for most popular names for boys and girls in Maine. The agency broke the names down by state. John is now listed, nationally, at number ...

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who on Wednesday made the surprise decision to appoint former Federal Bureau of Investigation chief Robert Mueller as special counsel in the Russian probe, yest...

Police say a 26-year-old U.S. Navy veteran with two prior arrests for driving while intoxicated has been taken in custody after his auto plowed into 23 pedestrians in Times Square, killing one of them...

Sessions has faced questions over whether his involvement in Comey's firing violates his pledge to recuse himself from investigations into Russian interference in the election. Trump, the Republican c...

The New York Times reported Tuesday that Comey documented each phone call and meeting he had with President Donald Trump in an apparent attempt to create a paper trail of the president's efforts to s...

Police say an 18-year-old woman killed by a vehicle that plowed through pedestrians in Times Square was a tourist from Portage, Michigan. One of those injured was the 13-year-old sister of the woman w...

President Donald Trump recognizes the importance of paying tribute to fallen officers, and the need to help protect those in the line of duty as their jobs become increasingly more risky. In 1962, Pre...

Events

McCain told Mattis that it is not the job of Congress to provide a strategy, but that the committee will start getting more vocal in its criticism if a plan is not presented soon. But at some point we have to say 'look, Congress and the American people owe. President Donald Trump is considering whether to send more troops to Afghanistan.

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They said they were grateful their son would "finally be with people who love him". After nearly a year and a half in a North Korean prison, a University of Virginia student is coming home, though reportedly in a coma. The third is a businessman named Kim Dong Chul. The State Department did not comment beyond Tillerson's brief announcement. The U.S., which has no trade with the North, can only apply economic pressure on the regime through secondary sanctions that prevent target entities ...

On Thursday, Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss his firing, which occurred in May, the investigation into any potential ties between Russian Federation and the Trump campaign and the possibility Trump may have obstructed justice when he put pressure on Comey to drop the investigation into Gen.

I love how Senator Harris gets manterrupted by her colleagues for insisting that Sessions answer. Miller responds with, "It was a completely partisan screed", before Powers cuts him off by reposing her question, "How was that hysterical?" "It makes me nervous", the most senior public law enforcement officer in America said.